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powersthatbe) wrote2019-09-17 02:56 pm
powersthatbe) wrote2019-09-17 02:56 pm
Emodriver Plot Role Info
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Re: Week 1/week 2 + questions
He's definitely going to be hiding forces in the derelicts and torpedoing then! Also sniper artillery ships.
Could he use a bit of sensor trickery and visual camouflage to make EDSF think his corvettes are on their side and ~surprise~ they're not? Alternately, (and I've seen this trick on a sci-fi show) can he set up some of his smaller ships with scramblers to make it seem like he has a lot more capital ships in the area he wants the EDSF to head to where he wants them and ~surprise~ the actual capital ships have been sent elsewhere.
Staging a very visible pull-out to Phobos, to lure EDSF into ambushes with forces with ships he's put in place for when they respond is definitely something he'd do!
How much of it can he accomplish at once with the forces he has available?
Re: Week 1/week 2 + questions
You're probably not going to be able to fake the drive signature of Like A Kjbillion Capships, but you could fake Like A Kjbillion Mecha or Missiles.
You would have to commit a fair amount of your reserves to this, which means you're up a creek if it fails, but the losses inflicted are potentially devastating. It also helps that this is a plan reliant on mostly frigates, corvettes, and artillery ships rather than on huger and irreplacable ships. High risk, high reward.
Re: Week 1/week 2 + questions
Hacet is the High Risk, High Reward guy.
And he has a backup plan if things go south. Probably multiple ones. I'm... not sure of what they are at the moment though. Any ideas?
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(he may or may not ask if a trusted soldier to volunteer to be captured in order to spread disinformation too)
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by which I mean, incredible, do it
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I mean.
/very serious military demeanor
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(This might help explain some of his amazing fighter pilot-y skills if he's reading the OTHER guys' mechs, too, tbh)
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It's too damn cool an image for him to go "something's wrong, those machines have no emotions" for me to reject it.
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